Chimp Attack

Guerilla Chimp's Sneaky Behavior Sparks Scientific Debate

| Michael Balter | Posted 05.11.2012

Three years ago, a stone-throwing chimpanzee named Santino jolted the research community by providing some of the strongest evidence yet that nonhuma...

Charla Nash, Chimp Attack Victim, Evaluated For Face Transplant

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee is undergoing a preliminary evaluation to determine if she is a potent...

Chimp Attack Cop's PTSD Claim Denied After Shooting Animal

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A police officer who shot and killed a chimpanzee last year after it mauled a woman has been denied a claim for workers' comp...

Help Charla Nash, Woman Whose Face Was Mauled By Chimpanzee

Posted 05.25.2011

Oprah viewers were stunned Wednesday to see the face of Charla Nash, a 56-year-old woman whose face was mauled by a friend's chimpanzee in February. N...

Charla Nash, Chimp Attack Victim, Shows Face On "Oprah" (PHOTOS)

Posted 08.12.2011

Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman mauled by a 200 pound chimpanzee in February, appeared on "Oprah" Wednesday to reveal her face and share heartbreak...

Charla Nash Sandra Herold Won't Be Charged In Chimpa Attack

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

STAMFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut woman who owned a chimpanzee that mauled and blinded a woman won't be charged because there's no evidence she kn...

Travis The Chimp On Xanax When He Went On Rampage

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A chimpanzee that mauled a Connecticut woman had the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in its system, according to toxicology tests, bu...

Chimp Attack Victim's Family Seeks $50M In Damages

AP | DAVE COLLINS | Posted 05.25.2011

STAMFORD, Conn. — The family of a woman mauled by a chimpanzee filed a lawsuit seeking $50 million in damages against the primate's owner, sayin...

Charla Nash, Travis The Chimp Attack Victim, May Have Brain Damage

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee two weeks ago lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids and may be blind and sufferin...

Sandra Herold Now Says She Never Gave Her Chimp Xanax

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFEREN | Posted 05.25.2011

STAMFORD, Conn. — As authorities considered criminal charges, the woman whose 200-pound domesticated chimpanzee went berserk and mauled a friend...